Building a qualified tomb world is not a simple matter. The tomb world must not only be strong, but also resist the erosion of various natural environments, including ordinary groundwater and magma infiltration.
If we encounter more extreme situations, such as earthquakes, plate movements, or even meteorite impacts, the tomb world should maintain general operations and protect the civilized individuals sleeping inside from being seriously injured due to these extreme crises.
Even with such high security requirements, the Gestalt civilization is still not satisfied. They also hope that the tomb world is large enough to quickly rebuild civilization after the crisis is over.
We also need to ask the tomb world to persist long enough, because no one knows how long the doomsday crisis will last.
Because of these requirements, the construction of the tomb world has extremely high requirements for materials, technology, and craftsmanship. In the real world, it is impossible to require a thing that is powerful, light, convenient, and cheap. In many cases, the best of one of these is an epoch-making product.
For example, Swarm tends to go to the extreme in lightness, convenience and low cost.
The Gestalt civilization obviously did not have this awareness, so the tomb world they built, although powerful, was extremely expensive, and the tombs became extremely large.
Such a huge tomb is not conducive to concealment and construction, so stone men are needed to help.
The stone man civilization is also a miracle of life. Stones that look like dead objects actually give birth to life. The core principle lies in the special energy that binds the stones together.
This kind of energy has similar characteristics to the ether element of the ether dragon, but its functionality and intensity are worse. The advantage is that it is easier to copy.
The stone people call themselves the Snown tribe. They do not think that they are some kind of intelligent life that can be called human beings. They think that they are not a species that is superior to the entire planet like those called 'human beings'.
They feel that they are only part of the ecological chain. Even if they step into the Milky Way and become a powerful interstellar civilization, they still feel that they are only part of the huge ecological chain of the Milky Way.
In their cognition, the universe, the Milky Way, and the galaxy are all alive, and what they need to do is to maintain their position and maintain the balance of the ecological chain.
For example, if you imagine the universe as a sophisticated humanoid life, the universe must be more diverse and complex. The Snowns feel that they are just one type of bacterial flora on this sophisticated humanoid life.
Sometimes it's quite interesting to look at the universe from their perspective.
The Snown tribe's view of history is even more peculiar. Many Stellaris Council civilizations believe that their historical length may exceed that of the Zeluo people. The Zeluo people themselves also feel that this possibility is very high.
It's just because of the unique view of history of the Snown people that it cannot be reflected. They do not record history, and have a happy-go-lucky attitude towards life. Sometimes they will drive their own stone-like battleships to drift in the universe, and the pilots will fall asleep. It doesn't matter even if they rush into the stars.
Some civilization scholars believe that it may be more reasonable to treat the Snown tribe as a natural cosmic life phenomenon, rather than as a separate intelligent civilization.
The tree people and Anfenli civilization once thought that they could reach a consensus with the Snown people and build friendship with each other because their values have many similarities.
The result was a failure. The Snown people were too 'lazy'. The Anfenli civilization advocated peace and cooperation. They have been actively seeking civilizations with the same values and cooperating with each other in order to build a better universe.
The Snown people don't care at all whether the universe is peaceful or wary. In their own words, why do bacteria use their own values to judge and recognize the fate of their hosts? This is unscientific, unreasonable, and very arrogant.
Why can such a stoic civilization, the Gestalt civilization, reach intentional cooperation with the Snown people and draw them into the Silicon Alliance?
Because the robot Gestalt communicated with them in a way that the Snown tribe could understand, the Gestalt civilization put down its posture and told the Snown tribe that Gestalt was similar to them and was also a small bacterial colony in the huge existence of the universe.
Then Gestalt hoped that a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship could be established between the two groups of bacteria to better promote the balance of the universe's ecology. After thousands of years of communication and exchange, the Snown tribe agreed to communicate with them in words that the Snown tribe could understand...
Communication between civilizations requires speaking words that others can understand, especially between the government and the people, and between people.
The symbiotic relationship with the Snown tribe has brought huge benefits to the Gestalt civilization. The first and most direct one is the strong and powerful battleships of the Snown tribe.
Some civilizations transform meteorites into various space bases or mining sites, which takes a lot of time.
The Snown tribe can activate stones, spit out useful minerals, and transform into warships that can fight. With the addition of the Snown tribe, the Silicon-based Alliance has greatly improved in terms of military and industry.
The biggest achievement between the two civilizations is the true fusion of a new species - Immortal.
The logic of Immortal is also very simple. The Snown tribe is an intelligent race formed by bonding stones with energy. Immortal is a steel machine bonded by this energy.
This strange combination gives Immortal an extremely powerful ability and true immortality. After all, even hard stone cannot withstand the erosion of time.
If the robot is made of living metal, it can really last for a very long time unless Immortal is completely melted.
Immortal is not invincible, he will be destroyed by various weapons, but as long as enough life energy unique to the Snown tribe is injected, Immortal can be resurrected.
In order to better preserve the special energy of the Snown family, Gestalt Robots also built large movable vehicles to carry the special energy of the Snown family. From another aspect.
Both the Snown clan and Gestalt have expanded and evolved because of their cooperation with each other.
Judging from the traditional thinking logic and morals of other civilizations, it is impossible to tell whether Immortal is dominated by the Gestalt or the Snown tribe.
This strange symbiotic relationship already belongs to the thinking logic of the Snown people, and it is normal that ordinary beings cannot understand it.
In the depths of the tomb world, there are no longer robots or stone men, only Immortal that is a fusion of the two. A large number of strange Immortal are strengthening the tomb, and their strange life forms can change their physical characteristics at will.
As long as they enter a state of silence, even if they are detected by the radar of other civilizations, these civilizations will not think it is a kind of life, they will only think it is a sculpture or a dead body.